That's what my breasts feel like now. Mudflaps. Yesterday was bloody awful. And I get to repeat it all again in 6 months. They found two cysts that apparently have a bit of junk in them. Rather than heading straight for a biopsy they are going to remeasure them in 6 months to see if they have gotten bigger or "louder".

The mammogram that I had last month was a walk in the park compared to what I got yesterday. I wish I could make a joke about how it felt but I can't. It just wasn't funny.

Vulgar, yes, but true.

This has been one suck ass week. Sunday evening we went next door for a cookout with our new neighbours. It was quite nice actually. Dd was well behaved. A stellar moment in her brief life thus far. Sunday night the headache arrived. It pounded and stabbed and gouged at the back of my eyeballs.

Ok...since I started writing this dd has interrupted me to whine about being hungry so I gave her a banana. I sat back down and before I could put fingertips to keyboard she was back whining because she couldn't get the banana open. (3:08)

On Monday morning I still had the headache. I got up and watered my plants outside as it promised to be a humdinger of a day. Never made it to the garden. Cramps doubled me over. Excruciating cramps. Cramps like you wouldn't believe. Then came the nausea. All the while dd was begging to play anything I would agree to.

I had to stop and load a dvd for dd. It wasn't working. We ended up putting Shiloh in instead. That's right. I parked my kid in front of the tv (3:23)

Where was I? Oh, yeah. (4:02)

Uhmmm. So, cramps, nausea, headache. I had to lay down for a little while. Dd was able to make her own lunch. She brought me a glass of cranberry juice and I was able to take some ibuprofen. I must have taken a dozen that day. I called dh up and asked him to come home early. My legs began to hurt like an infected tooth. A steady pain. My RLS kicked in and I had to keep moving my legs or they would hurt even moreso. Dd came in to read me some stories and keep me company. I was so weak. My arms felt like lead and I could barely stand. It was at least 80 degrees in the house but I had chills. Dd said I was hot. Dh came home around 3:30....earlier than expected. He fixed dinner for himself and dd. I couldn't eat. I drank some more cranberry juice and ate some more ibuprofen. It just wasn't taking the edge off. Taking a shower was shaky business. I decided to watch some House since I couldn't sleep. Dh and dd were watching it in the livingroom so he helped me settle in the lazyboy, got me a bite or two of a baked potato (which I couldn't finish) ............(10:42)

Tuesday I woke up with the headache. Dd and I laid around all day watching tv. TCM was showing Louis Jordan (sp?) movies beginning with GiGi. I had ibuprofen for lunch. Yummy, but still not working. I took an alka-seltzer cold at bedtime and I was out for the count. I swear that stuff works better than Lunestra.

Wednesday I awoke with the same headache but no more muscle aches, no more nausea, but I still cramped whenever I ate something other than ibuprofen. Guess how much weight I lost over those three days. Go ahead....guess! I gained two pounds.

Thursday hasn't been bad. The headache is flitting around on the edges of my brain. I'm able to eat again. In fact I thought I'd have a square of my $3 candy bar and a freaking damned earwig ran out of it when I opened the wrapper. Pissed ain't the word.

Tomorrow morning I have to get up bright and early and go back to radiology and get my boobs flattened again. Very unflattering. I can't imagine that job. Handling other people's sweaty boobs all day. I don't even want to handle my own. ick. I have to get a bilateral ultrasound, too. I guess they have to see if the "suspicious" areas are fluid filled or have garbage in them. I'm very anxious and agitated over the whole thing. Dh had made plans to go fishing with his buddy tomorrow leaving me high and dry with no support. The guy's infant got sick today so he took off work but will make it up tomorrow thus cancelling the fishing trip. Lucky me. I swear the outpouring of love and concern is suffocating me.

Well, that's it. I think I'll go eat a few alka-seltzers and see if I can find Mash on tv. (11:02)

It's 12:31, June 15th. The last day of school. Dd gets out 2 hours early today at 12:50. She'll be bursting through the door around 1:15-1:20. I'm so not ready for summer vacation.

Well, I'm sitting here waiting for the cable guy to show up. Could be a long wait. I shant hold my breath. You would have thought something catastrophic had occurred Monday night when dh discovered that we no longer had all of our beloved cable channels. He was pulling plugs and switching boxes and fiddling with this, that, and the other to no avail. "DAMN IT!" punctuated the otherwise quiet house nearly every 30 seconds. He was very adamant with his instructions this morning as he left for work: Stay by the phone. They will call before coming out. If you go out to the garden TAKE THE PHONE WITH YOU.

There are very few things that rattle dh's cage. The cable going out is the biggie. He goes nuts when the electricity goes out but that's only because the television doesn't operate without it I suspect. His other biggies? Ok, since you asked.

1. Ketchup
2. Mayo
3. Being late

Not necessarily in that order. But when the power goes out......holy hell! We have a phone specifically for calling the power company when the power goes out since our cordless won't work without electricity. It's #1 on the speed dial. Nope, not poison control, hospital, or fire department. Not even Mom. The power company. The keeper of the eternal flame. But what is electricity without television? In our household they are one in the same. If there is power and dh is home then the tv will be on. A very simple equation. Power + dh = television. Man, if they don't show up today dh may have a stroke.

I got less than 5 hours sleep last night. I really just want to crawl back into bed but I have way too much to do. I had planned on painting the wall in the kitchen and doing some additional spackling in the hallway but that may need to wait.

Yesterday I poured the preslope in the shower. That was a tough job. My hands still hurt. I'm glad I put down a layer of thinset mortar first. The 1/4 inch gauge came in handy for getting the pitch right. The pitch isn't equal all the way around but it'll have to do. As long as the water finds it's way to the drain if the membrane should fail is all that matters. I don't know how long it's going to take to cure. It's rather humid so it may be awhile.

I need to go get my vitamin D prescription refilled. I should do that today. I haven't had one in a couple of weeks. I need to go to Petco and get some advantage for the animals. The cats are scratching a lot and I don't need any ticks loose in the house. Those little beastie cats are all over the neighbourhood anymore. I had four join me on my walk back from the schoolbus this morning. Grendal is the only one who will walk with dd and me to the bus. The others wait until she's gone.

This is the last week of school and three of those days are early release. I'm trying to set up some activities for the kid for summer but having very little luck. I registered her for Junior Rangers at Pocohontas. I think we may sign up for ice skating camp as well. We'll see. She's all excited about our upcoming trip to D.C. We'll be going to the zoo and Smithsonian. She's been drawing pictures of the Washington Monument and the mall and reading about the Lincoln Memorial. She's ready, lol! Dh wants to go to the Holocaust Museum and I want to go to the Botanical Garden. I guess we'll be there for 3 or 4 days. Dh just called and said he's booking the room today. We'll be going to Williamsburg for a week in July and Kitty Hawk for a week in August. I guess we have summer nailed down.

Busy, busy, busy.

I finally caved. I went to the imaging center on 5/25 and had a mammogram done. It was unpleasant. But not as unpleasant as getting a letter in the mail reporting that the "examination showed a finding that requires additional imaging studies". Lovely. They want me back in as soon as possible for additional xrays and an ultrasound.
I also had my foot xrayed. They found nothing wrong with it. I don't know why it still hurts to walk on it if there's nothing wrong. Maybe they got my xrays mixed up and they found a greenstick fracture in my left boob.